The Application Of Cohesive Devices In High School English Listening Teaching

As one of the four basic linguistic techniques a foreign-language learner should acquire and one of the important means of daily communication,comprehensive reading has been a focus for foreign language teaching.A great many experts and scholars at home and abroad have experimented a lot on it,resulting in many great achievements. This thesis intends to explore listening teaching from a completely new angle:the application of cohesive devices in discourse to the practical high school English listening teaching.At the beginning of the thesis,the author mentioned the problem that the majority of students have great trouble in listening comprehension.One of the main reasons is that they lack sufficient knowledge on cohesive devices in discourse or text.Therefore,the topic came into the author's mind.This thesis is to help cultivate students' discourse listening techniques and improve their listening ability.Furthermore,it is to meet the challenge of a new round curriculum reform and the demands the College Entrance Examination requires high school students to achieve in listening ability.In this paper, the author talked about the definition,characteristics,substance,three models of listening comprehension and some scholars' views on cohesive devices in discourse.In chapterâ…¢, the author proposed the requirements of new high school English curriculum standards for the students listening ability,and then talked about some factors and problems that influence students' listening.In order to solve the problems,in the following chapter,the author mainly focuses on the application of cohesive devices in discourse to the practical high school English listening teaching.This part is primarily stated from two aspects: formal cohesion and semantic cohesion.In formal cohesion,it is divided into sound, grammar and vocabulary means.Sound means plays the role of cohesion through intonation and stress;grammar means through reference,substitution,ellipsis and conjunction,and vocabulary means through repetition,synonymy,hyponymy and collocation.However,semantic cohesion is presented from words and genre.As for words with different styles,students may make use of background information or predict the logic connection among conversations beforehand or try to analyze them according to hyponymy.To genre,different genres have different macro structures characteristics. Listening materials mainly cover narration,description and argumentation.Listeners understand texts by learning different styles and obeying some language rules.At the end of the thesis,the writer found it effective to apply cohesive devices to practical listening teaching.After a lot of listening teaching practice,the author wants to show that it may be of great help to improve students' listening skills if teachers equip them with the knowledge of cohesive devices and tell them how to analyze the structures or how to tell the styles of texts in the course of listening teaching.